On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Lee wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:45:31 -0400 > From: Red Hat Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Red Hat Linux 8.0 is now available. Get priority access to the Red Hat > Linux 8.0 upgrade by subscribing to Red Hat Network Basic service for > just > $60 USD annually. Get it now: > > https://rhn.redhat.com/network/sales/purchase.pxt > > What does $60 a year get you? > > Snip > > Got this piece of bloat from RH today. It does raise a couple of > questions though. 1) In what part of their anatomy does RH carry their > brains around in and 2) does Bill Gates secretly own RH. > > Why would RH think that Open source people would pay them $60/yr to stay > on their upgrade download list. Gates planned the same thing for XP and > it blew up in his face. And his customers only had one choice either M$ > or M$. With RH trying the gates thing I guess there'll be a lot of spill > over business to Mandrake and SuSE.
Because people working in a data center rarely have the time to be fighting for space on anonymous ftp servers just to keep their systems up to date. If you've got 250 Redhat based servers, $60 is pocket change to keep them all up to date in a timely fashion. No one, is forcing you to pay $60 to get RH-8. You can certainly fighting for a place on all the anon ftp servers that will almost certainly be full for the first week or so. Redhat is targetting the business world, they've made that quite clear. You are not their target audience. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
